Alteon, Intel and Sun Join Content Bridge Alliance.Content Bridge, an alliance formed to enable cross-network content distribution, have announced the formation of the Technical Advisory Membership. This group is designed to allow technology vendors, service providers and content providers to participate in the standards initiatives of the Content Bridge alliance. As initial members, Alteon WebSystems Alteon WebSystems Inc. NASDAQ: ATON, formerly known as Alteon Networks, "The Server Switching Company", was an Internet infrastructure company based in San Jose, California. Alteon was founded in 1996 by Mark Bryers, John Hayes, Ted Schroeder and Wayne Hathaway. , Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. will take active roles in proposing standards to address Internet interoperability issues related to the distribution, delivery and management of content. Technical Advisory Members of the Content Bridge alliance will work together to identify and propose technology standards, enabling member networks that use different technologies to participate in the Content Bridge content peering model. Technical Advisory Members will then submit these standards proposals to the Internet Engineering Task Force (c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, VA, www.ietf.org) Founded in 1986, the IETF is a non-membership, open, voluntary standards organization dedicated to identifying problems and opportunities in IP data networks and proposing technical solutions to the (IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force ), The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ) or other standards setting bodies. The Content Bridge alliance, was created for the purpose of facilitating standards development in core areas of content internetworking, including content mapping and muting and cache platform interoperability. Technical Advisory Membership is open to service providers, technology companies and content providers that can offer one or more of the following. Technology that enhances or extends current or future service offerings enabled via the Content Bridge Alliance Significant additional reach in the access provider, hosting partner or content publisher communities. Development support for the creation of technology standards enabling content peering |
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